Software Senior Principal Engineer Datapath

Software Senior Principal Engineer - I9

The Software Engineering team delivers next-generation software application enhancements and new products for a changing world.

Working at the cutting edge, we design and develop software for platforms, peripherals, applications and diagnostics - all with the most advanced technologies, tools, software engineering methodologies and the collaboration of internal and external partners.

Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Software Senior Principal Engineer on our UDS Team in Bangalore/Pune.

What you'll achieve

As a Software Senior Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for developing sophisticated systems and software basis the customer's business goals, needs and general business environment creating software solutions.

We build enterprise-grade, massively scalable storage systems-clustered, high-performance, and resilient-running across Linux and BSD.

Our portfolio includes a multi-petabyte S3 object store and a scale-out NAS platform.

We're a modern, scrum-based engineering org that ships with high velocity and quality, using the best tools, hardware, and practices.

You Will:


* Design and build next-generation AI data platform storage - mission-critical components powering our AI strategy-giving you the opportunity to tackle state-of-the-art problems in scale, performance, and reliability.


* Own problems end-to-end across design, implementation, testing, deployment, and supportability-within a cluster storage system.


* Build and harden distributed services: durability, consistency, replication, data paths, metadata, control planes, scheduling, placement, and lifecycle management.


* Optimize performance across computer, memory, IO, networking (including RDMA), and storage media (NVMe/SSD/HDD/AFA); drive latency and throughput improvements with data-driven profiling and advance reliability through observability, telemetry, failure injection, chaos testing, and automated remediation; raise the bar on serviceability and supportability.


* Collaborate in scrum teams; write clear design docs, PRDs, and RFCs; perform code reviews and mentor peers.

Raise product quality via automated tests, CI/CD pipelines, build hygiene, and release engineering & Contribute to security & compliance (TLS, authN/Z, crypto, FIPS, STIG/NIST best practices) and secure-by-default engineering.

Take the first step towards your dream career
Every Dell Technologies team member brings something unique to the table.

Here's what we are looking for with this role:

Essential Requirements


* 12-17 years of experience in systems programming and distributed systems fundamentals (concurrency, networking, storage, consistency, fault tolerance).


* Proficiency in at least one of C/C++ OR Java and Python (good to have); willingness to learn across the stack.


* Experience with Linux or BSD development and debugging (e.g., performance, strace/dtrace/eBPF, t...